It seems like a road trip comedy with Melissa McCarthy
and Jason Bateman in which he’s been the victim of identity theft by her hands
should be comedy gold – or something close to it anyway. McCarthy was the
Oscar-nominated breakout star in Bridesmaids
and Bateman has had one of the longest and most successful career renaissances
in modern Hollywood history. His sarcastic straight man to her wild and
boisterous comedy – both uncomfortably physical and tyrannically verbal –
should be a great match. However, something was glaringly absent if I sat
through most of Identity Thief
without cracking a smile more than a handful of times.
